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Title: The imperial island; England's chronicle in stone;
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Boston, Ticknor
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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h has already been said to show the style of castlesbuilt by the Normans to hold their communications with Franceand their possessions in England, to guard the chief city, andto protect royalty. At the same time a conception has beengiven of the stern ponderous strength of their earliest work,and of the long future, tragic or brilliant, through which it wasto endure, to be crowned by lasting power and final glory.Looking from many a keep, from the high shattered walls atRochester, or the far-distant battlements at Richmond, fromlofty Dover, royal Windsor, or dismantled Norham, we canrealize, as from no printed page, the wildness of the countryand its social forces, when toiling hands and lordly powerbuilt such enormous guards of conquest. We who watch thepeaceful coming and the quiet blending of far larger multi-tudes among the people of the Greater England, can lookat the time-worn stones with thankfulness that we live in ahappier age, and be glad that the ancient island, for its own
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THE NORMAN PERIOD. 95 sake and the world, for which, with all its failings, it hasdone so much and yet will do much more, has grown so fairand prosperous. The advent and establishment of the Normans in Englandwas in many ways a most decisive conquest. They thoroughlysecured and firmly held the country, and imposed their laws,while through great trials much good was effected. Yet onehesitates to say that the native English people were then —or ever — really conquered. They survived the shock andwear, and in time, to no slight degree, were blended with thenew race. Traces, often not small, of Jute and Angle, as wellas of Norman, have marked portions of the inhabitants evento our time, but centuries ago all were as one in generalcharacter, as one in nationality. The English people bowedfor generations, but arose the stronger from the struggle andthe union. In the Norman period the historic features are almost asmarked as was its opening. William I. was one of those raremen of enormou

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